"as a cross-tribal term in Algonquian-majority areas, such as Anishnabe Health, Anishnabe Education, and Training Circle. The term is also used among historically Anishinaabe peoples in the Upper Midwest region of the United States. The Chinook Jargon, the old trade language of the Pacific Northwest, uses ""siwash"" (an adaptation of the French """") for ""Indian"", ""Native American"", or ""First Nations"", either as adjective or noun. While normally meaning a male native, it is used in certain combinations, such as ""siwash cosho"" (""a seal"", literally ""Indian pig"" or ""Indian pork""). Many native communities perceive the terms """" and ""siwash"" negatively, but"
"South wind A south wind is a wind that originates in the south and blows north. Words used in English to describe the south wind are auster, buster (a violent south gale), föhn/foehn (alps), gibli (Libya with various spellings), friagem (a cold south wind blowing into Brazil from the Antarctic), khamsin (a hot spring wind in Egypt, with various spellings), kona (stormy southwest wind in Hawaii), notus (see mythology below for origin) and sirocco (North Africa). In Native American Iroquois tradition, the south wind is brought by the Fawn, and has a warm and gentle temperament reminiscent of the sweet"
"are referring to the snaking thunderstorm clouds that gather with bellowing winds (Vritra), Indra is then seen as the storm god who intervenes in these clouds with his thunderbolts, which then release the rains nourishing the parched land, crops and thus humanity. In another interpretation by Hillebrandt, Indra is a symbolic sun god (Surya) and Vritra is a symbolic winter-giant (historic mini cycles of ice age, cold) in the earliest, not the later, hymns of ""Rigveda"". The Vritra is an ice-demon of colder central Asia and northern latitudes, who holds back the water. Indra is the one who releases the"
"the North Wind. Historical linguists speculate that the name may derive from a Proto-Indo-European root *""gworh""- meaning ""mountain"" and giving rise to Germanic ""burg"" and ""berg"". A similar pattern is seen in the cognate name of the ""buran"" winds of central Asia and the name ""purga"" of their Siberian subtype. The changeable bora can often be felt all over Montenegrin Littoral, Dalmatia, Istria, Rijeka, the Slovenian Littoral, Trieste, and the rest of the Adriatic east coast. It blows in gusts. The bora is most common during the winter. It blows hardest, as the meteorologist Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel explained it"
"; Snær: ""Snaer"", ""Snœr"", ""Snow"". Snær In Norse mythology, Snær (Old Norse Snærr, East Norse Sniō, Latin Nix, Nivis, English ""snow"") is seemingly a personification of snow, appearing in extant text as an euhemerized legendary Scandinavian king. In the ""Orkneyinga saga"", Snow the Old (""Snærr hinn gamli"") is son of Frosti 'frost' son of Kári. In the account called ""Hversu Noregr byggdist"" ('How Norway was inhabited') in the ""Flatey Book"", Snær is son of Jökul (""Jǫkull"" 'icicle, ice, glacier') son of Kári. This Kári is lord of the wind and brother of Ægir or Hlér and Logi, all three being"
"the forests... carry the whirlwind on [his] back, and toss the great sea waves high in the air, and snarl at the tempests"" O-yan-do-ne, the moose, is the East Wind, who blows his breath ""to chill the young clouds as they float through the sky"". So-son-do-wah was a great hunter, known for stalking a supernatural elk. He was captured by Dawn, a goddess who needed him as a watchman. He fell in love with ""Gendenwitha"" (""she who brings the day""; alternate spelling: Gendewitha), a human woman. He tried to woo her with a song. In spring, he sang as a"
"species while in North America, the species is known as Caribou."" The word ""rein"" is of Norse origin. The word ""deer"" was originally broader in meaning, but became more specific over time. In Middle English, ""der"" meant a wild animal of any kind, in contrast to ""cattle"". The word ""caribou"" comes through French, from the Mi'kmaq ""qalipu"", meaning ""snow shoveler"", referring to its habit of pawing through the snow for food. Because of its importance to many cultures, ""Rangifer tarandus"" and some of its subspecies have names in many languages. Inuktitut is spoken in the eastern Arctic, and the caribou"
"Minuano Minuano is a cold southwesterly wind that blows in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul and in Uruguay. It has the same name of the indigenous Minuane people in the Portuguese language (in Spanish, the name of that people is ""Minuán"", and the same wind is called ""pampero"" in Uruguay). is widely mentioned in the Gaúcho folklore of the region. This wind originates from cold polar fronts that come from the southwest of South America during periods of high atmospheric pressure, usually following rains caused by the shock of the cold front with warmer stationary humid"
"whilst retaining the same meaning, as this'. In English usage, these modern names include: All the ""aubergine""-type names have the same origin, in the Dravidian languages. Modern descendants of this ancient Dravidian word include Malayalam ""vaṟutina"" and Tamil ""vaṟutuṇai"". The Dravidian word was borrowed into the Indic languages, giving ancient forms such as Sanskrit and Pali ""vātiṅ-gaṇa"" (alongside Sanskrit ""vātigama"") and Prakrit ""vāiṃaṇa"". According to the entry ""brinjal"" in the ""Oxford English Dictionary"", the Sanskrit word ""vātin-gāna"" denoted 'the class (that removes) the wind-disorder (windy humour)': that is, ""vātin-gāna"" came to be the name for egg-plants because they were thought"
"Squamish (wind) A squamish (also known as an Arctic outflow wind in winter months) is a strong and often violent wind occurring in many of the fjords, inlets and valleys of British Columbia. Squamishes occur in those fjords oriented in a northeast-southwest or east-west direction where cold polar air can be funneled westward, the opposite of how the wind generally flows on the Coast. These winds in winter can create high windchills by coastal standards of . They are notable in Jervis, Toba, and Bute Inlets and in Dean Channel and the Portland Canal. Squamishes lose their strength when free"
"stem ""šawa-"" does not mean ""south"" in Shawnee, but ""moderate, warm (of weather)"": See Voegelin ""šawa (plus -ni, -te) MODERATE, WARM. Cp. šawani 'it is moderating..."". In one Shawnee tale, ""Sawage"" (šaawaki) is the deity of the south wind. Curtin translates Sawage as 'it thaws', referring to the warm weather of the south. šaawaki is attested as the spirit of the South, or the South Wind, in this account, in one of Voegelin's tales, and in a song collected by Voegelin."" Europeans reported encountering Shawnee over a widespread geographic area. One of the earliest mentions of the Shawnee may be"
"is zonda. In Java, the local name for such winds is koembang. In New Zealand, they are known as the Nor'west arch, and are accompanied by the cloud formation they are named after that has inspired artwork over the years. In the Great Plains of the United States, these winds are known as a chinook. Downslope winds also occur in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains of the United States, and they can be as strong as other downslope winds and unusual compared to other foehn winds in that the relative humidity typically changes little due to the increased moisture"
"Snær In Norse mythology, Snær (Old Norse Snærr, East Norse Sniō, Latin Nix, Nivis, English ""snow"") is seemingly a personification of snow, appearing in extant text as an euhemerized legendary Scandinavian king. In the ""Orkneyinga saga"", Snow the Old (""Snærr hinn gamli"") is son of Frosti 'frost' son of Kári. In the account called ""Hversu Noregr byggdist"" ('How Norway was inhabited') in the ""Flatey Book"", Snær is son of Jökul (""Jǫkull"" 'icicle, ice, glacier') son of Kári. This Kári is lord of the wind and brother of Ægir or Hlér and Logi, all three being sons of the giant Fornjót."
"South America as well as in Alaska, a wind known as a williwaw is a particular danger to harboring vessels. Williwaws originate in the snow and ice fields of the coastal mountains, and they can be faster than . Katabatic wind A katabatic wind (named from the Greek word κατάβασις ""katabasis"", meaning ""descending"") is the technical name for a drainage wind, a wind that carries high-density air from a higher elevation down a slope under the force of gravity. Such winds are sometimes also called fall winds; the spelling catabatic winds also occurs. Katabatic winds can rush down elevated slopes"
"marking the end of long periods of high humidity and extreme heat. Pampero (wind) The pampero is a burst of cold polar air from the west, southwest or south on the pampas in the south of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia. This wind (often violently) picks up during the passage of a cold front of an active low passing by. It takes the form of a squall line and there is a marked drop in temperature after its passing. The Pampero is most common at winter in the southern hemisphere (principally between May and August). During the summers in"
"Witch of November The Witch of November, or November Witch, refers to the strong winds that frequently blow across the Great Lakes in autumn. The ""witches"" are caused by intense low atmospheric pressure over the Great Lakes pulling cold Canadian/Arctic air from the north or northwest and warm Gulf air from the south. When these cold and warm air masses collide, they can result in hurricane force winds that stir up large waves on the lakes. Gordon Lightfoot's song ""The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"" makes reference to the Witch of November: the storm that wrecked the ""Edmund Fitzgerald"" was"
"are referred to as Eskimo, and a number of different languages are termed Eskimo–Aleut languages. These languages may have more or fewer words for ""snow"", or perhaps more importantly, more or fewer words that are ""commonly applied"" to snow, depending on which language is considered. Three distinct word roots with the meaning ""snow"" are reconstructed for the Proto-Eskimo language *""qaniɣ"" 'falling snow', *""aniɣu"" 'fallen snow', and *""apun"" 'snow on the ground'. These three stems are found in all Inuit languages and dialects—except for West Greenlandic, which lacks *""aniɣu"". The Alaskan and Siberian Yupik people (among others) however, are not Inuit"
"wind in its respective country. Usually, this sudden violent wind is associated with briefly heavy precipitation as squall line. Known locally as ""pamperos"", these are characterized as strong downsloped winds that move across the pampas, eventually making it to the Atlantic Ocean. Offshore Central America, a ""gully squall"" is characterized by strong increases of the wind forced through sharp mountain valleys on the Pacific Ocean side of the isthmus. A ""bayamo"" is a squall emanating from tropical thunderstorms near the Bight of Bayamo. In the East Indies, ""brubu"" is a name for a squall In the Pacific Northwest, a ""squall"""
"descent. Brazilian singer and composer Rosa Passos wrote a song entitled ""Minuano"" in her album ""Pano Pra Manga"". Minuano Minuano is a cold southwesterly wind that blows in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul and in Uruguay. It has the same name of the indigenous Minuane people in the Portuguese language (in Spanish, the name of that people is ""Minuán"", and the same wind is called ""pampero"" in Uruguay). is widely mentioned in the Gaúcho folklore of the region. This wind originates from cold polar fronts that come from the southwest of South America during periods of"
"mentioned in one of the ""thulur"" as a term for wind. Otherwise this personage appears only in the ""Hversu"" and ""Orkneyinga saga"" accounts where Kári appears to be the heir to his father's kingdoms as in the ""Hversu"" Kári's descendants emerge also as rulers of """"Kænlandi and Finnlandi"""". Kári is father of a son who is named Frosti ('frost') according to the ""Orkneyinga saga"" but named Jökul (""jǫkull"": 'icicle, ice, glacier') according to the ""Hversu"". This son in turn is the father of Snær the Old (""Snærr inn gamli"" 'Snow the Old'). See Snær to follow this lineage further. In"
"is often laden with snow, which swirls about and reduces the visibility to near zero at times. In Alaska this severe northeasterly wind is known as ""burga"" and brings snow and ice pellets. The Russian Space Programme has named a class of spacecraft after the buran (see Buran programme). Buran (wind) The buran in Russian (Persian: ""بوران"", Russian: буран, Italian: ""buriana"") is a wind which blows across Iran, eastern Asia, specifically Xinjiang, Siberia, and Kazakhstan. Over the tundra, it is also known as ""пурга"", purga. It is a wind of cold air, sometimes very strong, characteristic of the steppes of"
"Snowbird (person) ""Snowbird"" is a North American term for a person who migrates from the higher latitudes and colder climates of the northern United States and Canada in the southward direction in winter to warmer locales such as Florida, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, or elsewhere along the Sun Belt of the southern United States, Mexico, and areas of the Caribbean. Many ""snowbirds"" are from either the Northeast, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, or Canada. A sunbird is one who leaves the lower latitudes and hot climates of the southern United States and migrates northward in summer to cooler locales such as"
"Nor'easter A nor'easter (also northeaster; see below) is a macro-scale extratropical cyclone in the western North Atlantic ocean. The name derives from the direction of the strongest winds that will be hitting an eastern seaboard of the northern hemisphere: as a cyclonic air mass rotates counterclockwise, winds tend to blow northeast-to-southwest over the region covered by the northwest quadrant of the cyclone. Use of the term in North America is associated with storms that impact the middle and north Atlantic areas of the United States, and in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada. Typically, such storms originate as a low-pressure area"
"Buran (wind) The buran in Russian (Persian: ""بوران"", Russian: буран, Italian: ""buriana"") is a wind which blows across Iran, eastern Asia, specifically Xinjiang, Siberia, and Kazakhstan. Over the tundra, it is also known as ""пурга"", purga. It is a wind of cold air, sometimes very strong, characteristic of the steppes of the Sarmatic plain, to the west of the Urals. The buran takes two forms: in summer, it is a hot, dry wind, whipping up sandstorms; in winter, it is bitterly cold and often accompanied by blizzards. Winter buran winds are strong and full of ice and snow. The sky"
"Vayu Vāyu (, ) is a primary Hindu deity, the lord of the winds, the father of Bhima and the spiritual father of Hanuman. He is also known as Anil (""Air, Wind""), Vyān (Air), Vāta (""Airy Element""), Tanun (The Wind), Pavan (""The Purifier""), and sometimes Prāṇa (""The Breath""). The word for air (vāyu) or wind (pavana) is one of the classical elements in Hinduism. The Sanskrit word 'Vāta' literally means ""blown"", 'Vāyu' ""blower"", and ""Prāna"" ""breathing"" (viz. the breath of life, cf. the *an- in 'animate'). Hence, the primary referent of the word is the ""deity of Life"", who is"
"one of his kind. None of his surviving offspring to date has accommodated him, all turning against him at some point. Anders Fager's ""The Wish of the Broken Man"" describes how 18th-century Scandinavian Saami worship ""Ittakka"" and calls up on him to create blizzards. It also fingers Ittakka/Ithaqua as responsible for the 1718 Carolean Death March. Ithaqua Ithaqua (the ""Wind-Walker"" or the ""Wendigo"") is a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. The titular creature debuted in August Derleth's short story ""Ithaqua"", which was based on Algernon Blackwood's tale ""The Wendigo"". It controls snow, ice and cold,"
"to the Inuit snow lexicon. Despite also having several words for snow, such as 'snowdrift', 'snowflake', and 'flurries', the vast majority of English snow-related words all have the same root: 'snow'. Meanwhile, in Inuit, there are multiple independent terms for snow. For example, ""aput"" means 'snow on the ground', ""qana"" means 'falling snow', ""piqsirpoq"" means 'drifting snow', and ""qimuqsuq"" means 'a snowdrift'. All four of these terms for snow have independent roots of each other. This is similar to how there are several independent terms use to describe water in English, such as 'water', 'river', 'ocean', and 'dew'. Since snow"
"means ""hairdryer,"" and the form ""phon"" is used in French-speaking parts of Switzerland as well as in Italy. The form ""fen"" is used in Croatia and Slovenia. Regionally, these winds are known by many different names. These include: Foehn wind A föhn or foehn (, ) is a type of dry, warm, down-slope wind that occurs in the lee (downwind side) of a mountain range. It is a rain shadow wind that results from the subsequent adiabatic warming of air that has dropped most of its moisture on windward slopes (""see"" orographic lift). As a consequence of the different adiabatic"
"sat there by the fire in the warm lodge, he did his best to freeze the fire, but Shingebis would stir it up and it got very warm in the lodge. Weaker and weaker from the heat, Kabibonooka finally turned and left. Soon after that Ziigwan (Spring) came. Kabibonooka never bothered Shingebis again. This story teaches that those who follow the ways of Shingebis will always be warm and have plenty to eat no matter how hard the winter is. Shingebis Shingebis in North American Indian mythology, is a diver who dared the North Wind to single combat. The Indian"
"Bordoisila Bordoisila () is an Assamese word native to the state of Assam in India. It is a wild wind in Assam, that marks the incoming monsoon season, as it is accompanied with heavy showers and strong wind causing widespread damage. Legend has it that just like a young, married woman would hurriedly, fly back to her mother destructing literally anything that comes her way; Bordoisila comes to Assam. The meaning of the word ""Bordoisila"" still draws a lot of controversy. People from upper Brahmaputra valley may define it as derived from Ahom word ""Sila"" means a kind of kite."
"flowers, babbling brooks, and the voices of birds of summer. In Greek mythology, Notus was the god of the south wind and bringer of the storms of late summer and autumn. In Egyptian mythology, Shehbui is the god of the south wind. He was depicted as a man with the head of a lion. South wind A south wind is a wind that originates in the south and blows north. Words used in English to describe the south wind are auster, buster (a violent south gale), föhn/foehn (alps), gibli (Libya with various spellings), friagem (a cold south wind blowing into"
"to the northeast, it is common for ""sundowner"" wind events to precede Santa Ana events by a day or two. Winds blowing off the elevated glaciated plateaus of Greenland and Antarctica experience the most extreme form of katabatic wind, of which the Santa Ana is a type, for the most part. The winds start at a high elevation and flow outward and downslope, attaining hurricane gusts in valleys, along the shore, and even out to sea. Like the Santa Ana, these winds also heat up by compression and lose humidity, but because they start out so extraordinarily cold and dry"
"14 °F (9 °C), and may last 4–7 days. Tehuantepecer Tehuantepecer, or Tehuano wind, is a violent mountain-gap wind traveling through Chivela Pass, most common between October and February, with a summer minimum in July. It originates from eastern Mexico and the Bay of Campeche as a post-frontal northerly wind, accelerated southward by cold air damming, which crosses the isthmus and blows through the gap between the Mexican and Guatemalan mountains. The term dates back to at least 1929. This wind can reach gale, storm, and hurricane force. The leading edge of its outflow (or cold front) may form rope"